tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.comments2015-01-13T04:36:53.994-08:00interactivereaderJackie Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11142876691306805769noreply@blogger.comBlogger1558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-29287115170164968452015-01-13T04:36:53.994-08:002015-01-13T04:36:53.994-08:00I absolutely loved this book. Elements of mental i...I absolutely loved this book. Elements of mental illness born of a disturbing past give this story teeth and it has a very tender love story as well. One of my very favorites I have read.I like this site :: Premier Automotive Services Fleet Service Kenthttp://www.kentautorepair.net/services/kent-fleet-service-maintenance/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-23944562878885787052013-05-12T04:29:24.136-07:002013-05-12T04:29:24.136-07:00My favorite series used to be Harry Potter. Then I...My favorite series used to be Harry Potter. Then I read Ranger&#39;s Apprentice. My heart suddenly fell for it! I am looking forward to the movie a lot. Cannot wait until the Ranger&#39;s Apprentice 12 comes out, too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-81391869608573099172013-04-02T08:59:13.753-07:002013-04-02T08:59:13.753-07:00@Jennifer Behind the bust of MLK? Of all places!
...@Jennifer Behind the bust of MLK? Of all places!<br /><br />@Angie Yes, TOTAL mystery!<br /><br />@Jennifer Well, you KNOW it&#39;s NOT the stork! heh (sorry!)<br /><br />@Karen 11 doors into the library? That&#39;s crazy!<br /><br />@Perogyo It would probably fit better in the 800s with humor.Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505846180505134084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-50810969131982809662013-04-02T04:12:18.106-07:002013-04-02T04:12:18.106-07:00Stuff on my Mutt just doesn&#39;t seem to match th...Stuff on my Mutt just doesn&#39;t seem to match the others!Perogyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066575445602451389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-33842944209292630882013-04-02T03:41:24.996-07:002013-04-02T03:41:24.996-07:00My students are pretty good about checking things ...My students are pretty good about checking things out rather than stealing them, but I don&#39;t have any supersensitive titles. I think this year will be worse than last-- I keep finding books in an adjoining classroom. Bright idea-- 11 doors into and out of the library!Ms. Yinglinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17805324364289597178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-59953479862911601342013-04-01T20:13:00.045-07:002013-04-01T20:13:00.045-07:00We have to hunt down Safe Sex 101 most often. I al...We have to hunt down Safe Sex 101 most often. I also regularly lose copies of Speak, 13 reasons why, and Sonya Sones, but I don&#39;t feel too bad about it. I figure - someone probably needed it, right?<br /><br />Just don&#39;t ask me how I feel about our missing Robie Harris titles.Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096787155616041727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-21835886666184145912013-04-01T09:57:45.166-07:002013-04-01T09:57:45.166-07:00A favorite game in our library is &quot;Where will...A favorite game in our library is &quot;Where will S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College Turn Up Hidden Next?!&quot; S.E.X. = the book that&#39;s circulated OUT of our library once but has 6 billion in house circ&#39;s. I WONDER WHY?!Angiehttp://www.fatgirlreading.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-77946458144531714022013-04-01T08:41:46.476-07:002013-04-01T08:41:46.476-07:00My teens keep hiding the sex books behind our bust...My teens keep hiding the sex books behind our bust of MLK. Happily, they have stopped stealing the wicca books...at least for the moment.Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096787155616041727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-8285552863316687122013-03-31T15:56:34.987-07:002013-03-31T15:56:34.987-07:00I just finished reading this book. It is powerful...I just finished reading this book. It is powerful and well written, though not flawless. As a male survivor of rape as a young teen, I can tell you that if I had been required to read this book in high school and possibly discuss it in class, I probably would have had a breakdown. Be warned that this book would be very triggering for a boy who was sexually abused / raped. If you are a teacher and considering assigning this book to read and discuss, be prepared to deal with the consequences.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-87638001865649451532013-02-12T10:08:28.259-08:002013-02-12T10:08:28.259-08:00Very nice book. I am very interested about online ...Very nice book. I am very interested about online books and I am searching about the <a href="http://www.ikgymnastics.com/" rel="nofollow"> gymnastics </a> books.Alan Donalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12389952348250755394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-80199113709946978822013-01-31T09:12:41.513-08:002013-01-31T09:12:41.513-08:00Well, the post went viral pretty quickly, and Scho...Well, the post went viral pretty quickly, and Scholastic has pulled the books. Honestly, if they hadn’t been divided by gender, I don’t think it would have been that big a deal. Maybe the girls’ version could be marketed as school survival, for everyone.<a href="http://phlebotomytrainingpro.net/mississippi/" rel="nofollow">phlebotomy education MS</a>phlebotomisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05064342768057730274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-62057484403516613132013-01-09T07:00:32.324-08:002013-01-09T07:00:32.324-08:00Since it&#39;s been 6 months since the outcry ... ...Since it&#39;s been 6 months since the outcry ... and &quot;apology&quot; (http://bit.ly/Mooqgj), these titles didn&#39;t jump out at me when our library&#39;s Juv. Non-Fic buyer handed me an order which contained them. <br /><br />Despite Scholastic&#39;s claims that &quot;no further copies will be made available&quot;, that apparently did not extend to recalling the titles from the two largest distributors of books in America. (They&#39;re also still readily available in Europe, as well) <br /><br />So I&#39;ve got one copy of each for our circulating collection. It won&#39;t take too much to convince my collection manager that this kind of thinking doesn&#39;t need to be influencing our community&#39;s youth; still, it seems like a ball-drop on Scholastic&#39;s part. <br /><br />No new copies are being made, but they are still very much available to bookstores and libraries. Hopefully, they are not being sold as clearance titles through the school market! the beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030858643291668006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-62271004236010239912012-11-07T11:08:42.705-08:002012-11-07T11:08:42.705-08:00Hooray for you. Satisfying outcome in my view. Sen...Hooray for you. Satisfying outcome in my view. Sensible comments too.alibilibraryhttp://www.alibilibrary.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-32352053812158765982012-11-07T11:06:17.881-08:002012-11-07T11:06:17.881-08:00Hooray for you. Satisfying outcome in my view. S...Hooray for you. Satisfying outcome in my view. Sensible comments too.Anonymoushttp://www.alibilibrary.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-63567073634280526722012-08-22T12:23:46.895-07:002012-08-22T12:23:46.895-07:00Great catch on the &quot;preternaturally fast hors...Great catch on the &quot;preternaturally fast horses&quot;. I really dislike books where their sense of spatial distance/time is distorted and takes you out of the story. As part of a digital publishing team I appreciate your hard work and I hope to connect with you on some titles that you might be interested in.<br />thanksPremier Digital Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17606044157634710379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-65951270913929573872012-08-09T07:59:38.780-07:002012-08-09T07:59:38.780-07:00I hate it when rescuers just magically apear whene...I hate it when rescuers just magically apear whenever the <br />hero or heroin is <br />in distress. <br />Takes all the fun out of everything.Rubyhttp://alittlespotofrandom.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-67900859243403849412012-08-09T07:58:09.867-07:002012-08-09T07:58:09.867-07:00I hate it when rescuers just magically apear whene...I hate it when rescuers just magically apear whenever the hero or heroin is in distress. Takes all the fun out of everything.Rubyhttp://alittlespotofrandom.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-76445765119112138772012-06-20T09:29:12.145-07:002012-06-20T09:29:12.145-07:00I found your blog from one of the many articles wh...I found your blog from one of the many articles which did give you credit for calling out Scholastic on the sexism in these books - thanks for speaking up. As the mom of a 3 year old girl, I have an incredibly hard time finding books that don&#39;t portray girls as useless dress-up dolls. In case you or your readers are interested, here is one from an independent publisher that I like: http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Saves-the-Princess-ebook/dp/B00787QNJ0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1340209376&amp;sr=1-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-52769170293678516102012-06-16T17:03:46.057-07:002012-06-16T17:03:46.057-07:00I have seen several Shakespeare plays that.....wer...I have seen several Shakespeare plays that.....were not what Shakespeare would ever have envisioned. He certainly could never have conceived of a &quot;movie.&quot; So I have no problem with enhanced digital storytelling. Why not? Considering *I* make special effects when I do read alouds with young children, I can&#39;t turn my nose up at this.Ms. Meyrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754643164165696669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-65595877973663315422012-06-16T05:23:48.538-07:002012-06-16T05:23:48.538-07:00@John Carr:3:26: &quot;I don&quot;t think removing...@John Carr:3:26: &quot;I don&quot;t think removing choice of pety fiction from the shelves is the answer. For some people gender roll assignment is comforting. Even if you disagree it&#39;s no reason to remove it&quot;<br /><br />That&#39;s easy for you to say when you&#39;re not part of the minority. You (and probably your best buddies) don&#39;t live with their social disadvantages, nor experience the discrimation they do. For a lot of white people, the current racial status is comforting. For a lot of straight people, the current heterosexual status is comforting. So are people protesting against racism and homophobia also whiny/unreasonable? Also, can&#39;t the people comfortable with gender roles, etc. make their own choice what to read/not to read? Your criticism is pretty one-sided.<br /><br />&quot;Teach your kids who to be. Don&#39;t leave it in the hands of comic books&quot;<br /><br />That&#39;s assuming kids (and more importantly, teenagers) listen and believe every word their parents say (short of abusively belittling ones), and that schools/societal peer pressure/popular media have little to no influence in shaping what they grow into. <br /><br />John Carr: &quot;Shame on the people who want to force their value structure on everyone else&#39;s children&quot;<br /><br />So why is criticizing books online for their arguably sexist nature-ONLINE, IN ONE&#39;S OWN BLOG-worse and more imposing than mass-marketing sexist ideas? That&#39;s very double standard regarding free speech, isn&#39;t it? And again, people can CHOOSE what to read/not to read themselves, including the choice to adhere to sexist gender roles. If a person is genuinely interested in improving gender equality in society, they&#39;d actually speak out against mass marketing this kind of stuff, or at the very least, criticize it. I guess you personally can&#39;t be bothered or inconvenienced to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-70829563832091550612012-06-16T05:09:51.230-07:002012-06-16T05:09:51.230-07:00@John Carr - 9:25: &quot;It&#39;s people like you ...@John Carr - 9:25: &quot;It&#39;s people like you who have made folks afraid to say &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; anymore. You who wants to take choice off of the shelf because it doesn&#39;t agree with your particular values. You are the one weakening people.&quot;<br /><br />It sounds like you think that this kind of oppression only goes one way, and is equal in severity; that the majority doesn&#39;t do this to the minority, or that it happens to both sides just as badly. A lot of people have been bullied, shamed, or in some cases even murdered for challenging the social status quo. Or just by being what they are (homosexual, black, muslim, etc). Unless, that is, you think minorities generally use their disadvantages as a cheap way for social gain/pity, or you believe that minorities rather just wallow in victim mentality forever than actually live their lives. So why are blacks/homosexuals/atheists/muslims, etc. the target of hate crimes, and not white/straight/Christians? Same with more women than men raped/battered in general (outside of prison). <br />Also, do you really think that the severity of minority oppression is equal to being sensitive about saying &quot;Merry Christmas&quot;? The former can actually be life-threatening, while the latter is merely a matter of convenience.<br /><br />John Carr: &quot;Then do me a favor and man up. Because being a man means forcing your way forward to get your crap done. It means not placing blame on others for the way you behave.&quot;<br /><br />You know, telling a woman to &quot;man up&quot; sounds very problematic and sexist. It&#39;s like living responsibly and for yourself is directly linked to the male gender. And again, women who do &quot;man up&quot;, act aggressively, and break societal norms are often labeled mentally imbalanced, a bitch or lesbian-in a derogatory way; there&#39;s a sexist double standard. It&#39;s just like the phrase &quot;having balls&quot;, which associates real bravery with physically having testicles (then again, transmen are not particularly admired by society for actually having balls, are they?).<br /><br />Also, it seems like you think social discrimination can be so easily overcome if women and other minorities just put their back into ending it (funny that the American presidents before Obama were all white men, and never had their citizenship seriously questioned).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-56497167521156767832012-06-13T15:53:10.365-07:002012-06-13T15:53:10.365-07:00T, I haven&#39;t seen that! It is interesting, alt...T, I haven&#39;t seen that! It is interesting, although unsurprising given what we&#39;ve seen with the studies about Baby Einstein and the like. Digital storytelling for small children is proven over and over to be ineffective. I don&#39;t know why it&#39;s different to be read the same story will sitting in a lap, but it is, and all evidence seems to point that way. <br /><br />Luckily, for my point, and as a teen librarian, I&#39;m more concerned with how this format works with teens, and I haven&#39;t seen any studies for that demographic that trigger alarms. Since we know so much about different learning styles, I&#39;d like to think that integrating different media can improve reading comprehension and enjoyment. We know that struggling teen and tween readers can benefit from having audiobooks accompany print, and I&#39;ve seen engagement from reluctant teen/tween readers of things like 39 Clues and Patrick Carmen. Making reading fun - more importantly, making storytelling fun - can lead to developing the type of readers who only need their imagination. <br /><br />Ultimately, I think we&#39;re just discovering and developing where this can go. It&#39;s unlikely that all books will go this direction. But any statement eliminating the possibilities, I believe, is shortsighted.Jackie Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11142876691306805769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-38032586904537636502012-06-13T05:55:22.111-07:002012-06-13T05:55:22.111-07:00How to Turn a No Into a Yes
It&#39;s too much to ...How to Turn a No Into a Yes<br /><br />It&#39;s too much to hope that this chapter is about teaching girls about the dangers of ruphies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-36573865919099946852012-06-12T15:26:42.892-07:002012-06-12T15:26:42.892-07:00Right on. I don&quot;t think removing choice of pe...Right on. I don&quot;t think removing choice of pety fiction from the shelves is the answer. For some people gender roll assignment is comforting. Even if you disagree it&#39;s no reason to remove it. Teach your kids who to be. Don&#39;t leave it in the hands of comic books. Shame on the people who want to force their value structure on everyone else&#39;s children.John Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041105522138121138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660349.post-82319515592022146322012-06-11T17:30:40.662-07:002012-06-11T17:30:40.662-07:00@JohnCarr. A lot of women have, in these comments,...@JohnCarr. A lot of women have, in these comments, said they would prefer the boys survival guide as would I (a lady). That&#39;s point number one.<br /><br />Point number two: this is a form of socialization. By putting feelings solely in the domain of women, they&#39;re saying to men that they&#39;re not allowed to feel. That having crushes and being embarassed is a woman&#39;s thing. Seeing as boys are human too, it&#39;s not a great thing to say. <br /><br />It&#39;s bad for women too. It&#39;s taking away their autonomy. A woman doesn&#39;t need to sit idly by while men are in charge of survival. That&#39;s ridiculous. What would a woman do if she had to go to space without a man or survive frostbite without a man around? Just die? Women can do and have done these things too, it&#39;s not solely a male domain. Just like being bullied or taking tests is not solely a woman&#39;s domain.<br /><br />The point is that this book reinforces traditional gender roles that are, at their core, harmful nd against the reality of human nature. These kind of books socialize children. It&#39;s simple psychology. When boys and girls are trying to define their roles in life, they look to authority figures. Maybe teachers, maybe parents, maybe the media (of which this book is a part). If they get stupid messages like these ones then that&#39;s the message that&#39;s gonna stick: men don&#39;t feel and woman can&#39;t survive things. Both are flawed premises and we shouldn&#39;t be teaching our children these things. <br /><br />Point three: why is this gendered in the first place? If boys were really interested in the book, they wouldn&#39;t need a label to tell them so. If a girl was interested in the book, she wouldn&#39;t need one either. Quite frankly, by labeling them, they&#39;re cutting out the other 50% of the market who might also be interested in zombie attacks or advice on crushes. It&#39;s silly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com